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Richie Rich Vacations Digest #1

Harvey · Series began 1977 · November 1977

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Dates

Cover date: November 1977
On sale: August 18, 1977
Pages: 132

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Stories

Untitled · 1 pages
Richie literally offers his dad's employees a "car pool."
Exhausting Vacation · 5 pages
Mr. Rich closes his plant for a week and sends his sluggish employees on a cruise on board one of his yachts. But crooks gain entry for the purpose of robbery, which Richie successfully foils before the Coast Guard make an arrest.
Untitled · 1 pages
Mr. Rich transforms his office desk into a ping pong table for his Wednesday noon workout with Richie.
Limerich · 1 pages
A limerick about a witch plotting to rob the Rich mansion, but Richie foils her plans by switching brooms.
Cadbury is Speechless · 5 pages
Cadbury develops laryngitis.
Untitled · 1 pages
Richie asks a question about an explorer who visited ancient China. His father refused to tell him directly but gave him a visual hint - by mounting on a horse and playing polo. The answer is Marco Polo.
Ha, Ha, Wilderness · 4 pages
Richie and Gloria go on a nature walk through the woods, but when Gloria ends up in trouble, Richie delivers.
Richie Rich and the Watch Bird · 5 pages
The Riches' new parrot can sound very annoying, but is helpful in helping foil a crime.
There's No Place Like Home · 5 pages
While on an Arctic expedition, Richie feels homesick, but Cadbury tries to cheer Richie up with a snowman. Later, an abominable snowman falls in love with the snowman, and is captured. However, when transported to a warm climate, the monster now feels homesick, and he is sent back to the Arctic along with a machine that makes instant snowmen!
It Grows on Trees! · 5 pages
A scientist has invented a plant that grows banknotes, but it ends up in the wrong hands. But little does the crook know that the banknotes and coins grown on the plant have Richie's portrait on them, implying that the plant actually grew play money, and the crook was fooled.
The Greedy Robot · 5 pages
Reggie reprograms Irona's brain, and she becomes selfish and greedy as a result.
Richie Rich and the Diamond People Part 1 · 5 pages
Reggie causes trouble while he and Richie are on a jungle vacation, and after Reggie slaps a native in the face, the native ends up shrinking Reggie as retaliation.
The Diamond People-Part 2 Reggie is Not Wanted! · 5 pages
Reggie is struggling to live life as a shrunken person, but after the natives have realized that banana skins would make a great fuel for their journey home instead of diamonds, the natives decided to grow Reggie back to normal size, and then zap the ray on the two so that they forget what had happened. The natives were actually from another planet.
Hard to Hide! · 5 pages
Richie is having a hard time trying to conceal a gigantic diamond that is to be given to his mother for her birthday.
Double Rich · 5 pages
Mr. Rich gets kidnapped, and replaced by an impostor who goes to Mr. Rich's office and commits a scam.
Untitled · 1 pages
After a drinking glass falls from a table and is destroyed, Richie replaces it with one that is shinier and heavier - because it is carved out of a diamond.
A Near Miss! · 5 pages
Mr. Rich had just arrived home from work as Richie was leaving for his father's office for dinner. They repeatedly miss each other, and the police get involved.
Untitled · 1 pages
While taking public transit, Richie is told by a passenger to unload the bulging pockets so he and another guy would sit comfortably. Inside Richie's pockets were his mother's diamonds which she wants to have delivered somewhere.
Solid Friendship · 5 pages
Irona has great communication with anything mechanical. But when she communicates with a train, it ends up getting derailed, and causes trouble.
Solid Friendship-Part 2 Love that Robot · 5 pages
After Irona puts the train back on the tracks, she tries to interact with a chain saw, but Irona malfunctions as a result, and Richie and his father try to help make her feel better. The solution? Give her some time off.
Untitled · 1 pages
A construction worker's bulldozer's blade is damaged, so Richie decides to have it replaced by his mother's big yellow diamond, which is very strong.
Untitled · 1 pages
Richie has a prism that can produce a rainbow on the ceiling in the shape of a dollar sign.
Timber! · 5 pages
Lotta stands on a log, but gets taken off-course down a river and towards a waterfall. Pa Plump tries to rescue her, but he also ends up in harm's way. There is one problem: Lotta is so scared, she cannot speak.
You Can't Win 'em All! · 5 pages
It's Only Money! · 5 pages
Richie is worried that Gloria may be angered because of piles of money lingering on the Rich estate. To make matters worse, a strong gust of wind blows money around. As Richie and Gloria take a nature walk, Gloria notices foxes playing with money, a moose eating money, a bird making a nest out of money, a bear sleeping on money, and an ape handling money. Gloria is fed up, she wants to go home, but she asks Richie to loan her some change for bus fare - but the ape hands her a few banknotes and she promises to bring Richie the change the next day.
Untitled · 1 pages
A ticker tape parade is scheduled to pass by Mr. Rich's office, but there is no ticker tape left, so Richie improvises by using banknotes as a substitute.
The Better One · 5 pages
Richie's uncle, Bran, hates being clumsy. This gives Reggie an opportunity to play pranks on Bran, but end up backfiring on Reggie in the end.
Untitled · 2 pages
Mrs. Rich wants his son to put his weekly allowance in his locker vault for the armored truck to pick up. To pass the time away, Richie decides to shoot money bags through a basketball hoop, but one of the money bags gets stuck, but fortunately he decides to carry the detached basketball net with the money bag inside to the armored truck, which bewilders a couple who are trying to catch butterflies.
Do Robots Have Feelings? · 5 pages
Irona has feelings for others. She is also concerned for two scientists after an earthquake splits the ground and they fall through the opening.
Untitled · 1 pages
Richie shows Reggie his reptile collection, which has a literal "diamond back turtle".
Untitled · 1 pages
Dollar is saddened when he discovers his dog house was destroyed during a strong wind storm. While Richie vows to have construction workers build a new dog house, he decides to build a doghouse as a temporary placeholder - using gold bricks for the walls and stacks of banknotes for the roof.
Everyone be Seeded · 5 pages
Scientists have invented a substance that grows grass on ice, which would be very useful in the Arctic.
Untitled · 1 pages
Mr. Rich scores a hole-in-one in golf, but not without Richie warning him that the hole in which his successive putt was made would gush oil, after Mr. Rich pulls a cork out of the hole.
Untitled · 1 pages
Reggie ruins Richie's hay ride by using a hose to make the hay wet. But Richie improvises by using a pile of banknotes as a substitute, much to Reggie's dismay.
The Cursed Diamond · 5 pages
Richie purchases a diamond which is said to carry a curse. While he has the diamond on him, bad things happen but he manages to escape from harm every time.
Untitled · 1 pages
Richie makes a collage out of banknotes.

Characters

Richie RichLittle Lotta

Reprinted in

Richie Rich Vacation Digest Magazine (1992), Richie Rich (1960), Richie Rich Million Dollar Digest (1991), Hot Stuff Digest (1992)